MS has a very important relationship with China. Thomas Friedman in his book, "The World is Flat" explains how Chinese universities send MS their top students. He says that in China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears, while in America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears, and that's one of the main problems here... Anyway, I doubt MS is going to do anything to threaten their relationship with the country that provides them so many of their best employees.
I remember seeing on TV quite a few years back, a cyclist with an old Mac hooked up to his bike (this was a bike that was close to the ground, and you sat in a sort of reclined position), and he had just 8 keys for input: 4 on each handlebar, with which he used to press the binary ascii equivalent of the character he wanted to enter. The solar cells and battery for the thing were on a trailer that he pulled behind him. Did anybody else see this? I wonder whatever happened to him...
Actually, whether he said it or not can not be proven either way. My point is that a stubborn and arrogant management style will stifle rather than further innovation.
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MS has a very important relationship with China. Thomas Friedman in his book, "The World is Flat" explains how Chinese universities send MS their top students. He says that in China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears, while in America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears, and that's one of the main problems here... Anyway, I doubt MS is going to do anything to threaten their relationship with the country that provides them so many of their best employees.
I remember seeing on TV quite a few years back, a cyclist with an old Mac hooked up to his bike (this was a bike that was close to the ground, and you sat in a sort of reclined position), and he had just 8 keys for input: 4 on each handlebar, with which he used to press the binary ascii equivalent of the character he wanted to enter. The solar cells and battery for the thing were on a trailer that he pulled behind him. Did anybody else see this? I wonder whatever happened to him...
Actually, whether he said it or not can not be proven either way. My point is that a stubborn and arrogant management style will stifle rather than further innovation.
Microsoft is making the same mistake that Henry Ford did...
"The customer can have any color they want, as long as it's black"
Competing car companies listened to their customers and gave them more options, and eventually, so did Ford in order to remain competitive.
In the future, Microsoft will be the McDonald's of software. It will be simple, cheap and primarily marketed to children.